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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...economic growth, life expectancy and levels of inequality for different countries – include environmental indicators such as wildlife populations, pollution levels, recycling rates and annual GHG emissions. Another often used environmental indicator is the ecological footprint, which is based on the availability of land and sea to support a population (see Box 1). Box 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...economic circumstances and so on, to try and determine why some go on to commit crime, as compared to others who do not. This type of research is called a ‘longitudinal study’, as it follows people over a long period to see if their behaviour changes or develops over time. The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development was a longitudinal study that began in the 1960s...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...economic structures which generate a repertoire of roles, symbols and conventions that individuals take up and identify with. Individual control over work-based identities are structured, patterned and constrained by the pre-existing conditions of work and distribution of economic opportunity. Individuals may have more choice over whether they choose to identify with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...Economic Forum, 2019). 70 billion ‘livestock’ animals are slaughtered for human food globally each year; around 50 billion of them are chickens (Faunalytics, 2018). Aquatic animals Precise numbers of aquatic animals killed for human consumption are unrecorded, but even low estimates dwarf the figures for the killing of land-dwelling ‘livestock’ animals. 790–2300...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...economic or coercive forms of influence. Kotler et al. (2002) argue that social marketing is often used to influence an audience to change their behaviour for the sake of one or more of the following: improving health – health issues preventing injuries – safety issues protecting the environment – environmental issues contributing to the community –
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...economic and environmental determinants of health. As you have learned, female reproductive health is one example where the social model offers a useful perspective. The biomedical model would consider reproductive health in relation to the body and reproductive roles, whereas the social model starts from the perspective of the social, cultural and economic, as well as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...economic value as £1 received or paid at some point in the future. We will discuss the causes of the time value of money. Discounted cash flow techniques such as net present value and internal rate of return require us not only to take account of the time value of money, but to estimate what it is by using a discount rate. We show how the weighted average cost of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Economic Area (EEA), or listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. Private and public limited companies must have at least one shareholder. Small companies may have only a few shareholders. Large companies, and especially quoted companies, can have thousands or even hundreds of thousands of shareholders...Companies and financial accounting: 1.3.2 A note on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs